64 Nations Say No to GMO, Yet US Govt Nears Illegal GMO Labeling

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The WHO has already declared that five of the major chemical herbicides used to grow GMO crops are either likely or definitely cancerous, yet the USA still makes secret trade deals that would allow biotech to push their genetically modified ‘food’ on Americans who don’t want to eat it.

Our right to know if we are even eating GMO crops is being taken away via legislation known as the Deny Americans the Right to Know Act (DARK) act. (This is officially known as the ‘Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act.)

More than 60 countries have already passed mandatory GMO labeling laws, and many will ban GMO crops altogether this year if they haven’t already. You can see a great map of these GM labeling bans here.

So are we really supposed to believe that genetically engineered crops are safe and that the average consumer in America who is practically begging for organic food is simply over-reacting, or are we to correctly assume that the United States has been bought by biotech?

The DARK act, otherwise known as Mike Pompeo’s bill to support Monsanto, is being fast tracked through Congress right now even though thousands of people have signed petitions to stop it. It’s clear that Congress isn’t looking out for the people, and has biotech’s interests in mind. Natural Society also made a petition you can sign here.

So while a huge number of countries throughout the world are smart enough to stand up against Monsanto and their biotech buddies, HR 1599 is almost on the books as a law that will prohibit mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods (GMOs) at both the state and federal levels.

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I don’t mind GMOs. Look the world has a major problem, we are over populated and GMOs is a great way of addressing the problem. Instead of trying to find new land to plant wheat, corn, etc. We genetically modify the crops we have and they will produce more food per hectare. That’s great news for us! We don’t have to dedicate land to growing food. Nearly all our crops have been modified in someway by us.

Here is where I have a problem we are really talking about major chemical herbicides that are used to keep invasive insets, weeds, from taking over or eating our product before it is harvested. This is a different topic and the story shouldn’t have addressed GMO labeling. I would be interested in seeing what specific herbicide they are talking about since one (or more) was not mentioned.

Over population is being addressed by the chosen new world orderlies with weaponedized food, to kill off all the useless eaters. The global overpopulation problem should include chosenoids and new world orderlies first.

This is typical of the Orwellian pronouncements by the U.S. government – meant to deceive rather than reveal. Our government once, of the people for the people and by the people, is now of the corporations for the corporations and by the corporations. The FDA tells us that GMO food is safe because the former directors of Monsanto are now heading the FDA. All Round Up ready GMOs have glyphosphate, a known cancer causing agent, in them.

I think its funny they both are avoiding straight forward questions, and then trying to spin it back on us. Like, have you, or do you now work for monsanto? Name five ways gmo’s benefit the food system(and not a fucking lame text book answer, because you two morons were grown in a lab and now work in one!) Name one way you have used gmo’s in food to benefit mankind and not line the pockets of the big machine? Prove that the honey bee population is not in great decline, prove that plant genetics are not being manipulated unnaturally. All your answers tells us is that you spitting inconclusive scientific babble, without a schred of proof that all gmo’s that are tested, are safe for human consumption, and don’t mutate. You can honestly tell me with a staight face that gmo’s have a negative affect globally, and have not aided in the rise of greenhouse gas, or the acidification of the oceans, if you can tell me that the gmo farmed raised salmon, gmo apples, corn syrup, ethenol, glyphosate, gmo papaya, wheat, peanuts, milk, farmed beef……are nutritional, good for the enviorment, and not absolute abominations, then you are a sick son of bitch(and yes I just called your mom a bitch) oh, and for the record you fucktards, Phd Oceanography and a Doctorate in Aquaponics, And first hand real life( not in a lab, payed by a corporation to find positive results) in an actual field experiance!

You are very confused as usual. I never once said I worked in a lab nor did I say I was a scientist. Neither have I dodged any of yours or anyone else’s questions. I have never worked for Monsanto directly, we did have a Dekalb seed dealership with them about fifteen years ago we have since parted ways and have not sold any of their chemistry in years. Gmos benefit us in many ways and their potential is unlimited. However, with that being said the initial gmos provided farmers with the most benefits. The current gmo benefits:

1. Bt crops produce the same protein that organic farmers use. Thanks to this it has replaced thousands of tons of granular insecticide each year.

3. Golden rice will benefit millions of people that need additional vitamin A. This also qualifies as your benefit to mankind without lining anyones pockets.

4. Gmo papaya saved an industry in Hawaii.

5. Our future gmos will hopefully save the Florida orange and could even produce a peanut that people aren’t allergic to.

Next, sure honeybees are having issues, but the best scientists in the world haven’t been able to figure it out, but wait Lord Bryan has it all mapped out to a T. Crops that the bees don’t touch have to be the cause. Lol, you are funny.

As far as being unnatural, they are no more so than your organic seedless watermelon. Which by the way leads us to the real issue of who doesn’t answer questions. So how do you feel about them?

You are so f ing brainwashed and delusional, its sad really ;(. So you have worked for monsanto indirectly! Second: Invasiveness – Genetic modifications, through traditional breeding or by genetic engineering can potentially change the organism to become invasive. Few introduced organisms become invasive, yet it’s a concern for the users.
Resistance to Bt – The biggest potential risk to using Bt-crops is resistance. Farmers have taken many steps to help prevent resistance.
Cross-contamination of genes – Although unproven, genes from GM crops can potentially introduce the new genes to native species. Third: canola comes from rapeseed, which is toxic and makes mustard gas, and I could launch a nucular strike on nreasons why that shit is so bad for the human body. Golden rice, are you joking? that your big saviour? What millions of people is it feeding for free right now,no govenment money involved, no private investors involved, for free right now! Hawaii papaya was saved? Your are a fucking joke, having lived on the islands and I am very close to good amount locals, the Island of Kauai would disagree with your gmo stance and what monsanto has done for the land. Papaya was the secret backdoor, into destroying one of the most beautiful places on earth. Save the florida orange! And more gm peanuts? You truly take the cake on stupidity! Gm peanuts and gm wheat are the main cause in the massive rise in food allergies, The genetically modified fucking organism mutated! “The honeybees are
Having issues”! What telemarketers won’t stop calling? They can’t find there pants?WTF, issues, THEY ARE ALL FUCKING DYING AT AN ALARMING RATE! That is truly scientific fact and its all because of bt crops! And yes you can find a map of bee death rates around the world on line! Gmo’s are a failure, just like your lame attempt to lift gmos up.

Maybe you should smoke some, expand your mind and realise you are a complete lemming. What gmos are doing to the food system and the negative impact on the eco system, I wanna know if that s*it is in my food and have it say so on the label! So if I was rambling it was to prove a point: You… Gmo roberts are as ignorant as they come! The people that read these articles are against gmos( the letters do not deserve to be capital) And every time Christina writes something, you and your Gay pirate know everything buddie(arden(spockloving)rationalist) sh*t all over it? If you don’t like the way she writes then why on earth do you come to a site called natural society and read it? Who the fuck are you a professor of the english language? You should be ashamed of yourself, did she spit some truth, and couldn’t take it, so you come here to spread your propaganda bulls*it! Also my” profanity” drives emphasis home, and keeps striking a nerve with you, so I will keep doing as long as you are pro gmo! Because everytime you open your mouth about gmos its like your using profanity in this forum

Answer me one question since you keep dodging it, why don’t you want organic seedless watermelons to have a special label? You are the one without a clue if you can’t come up with a reasonable answer. Of course you will most likely just dodge the question.

Its a hybrid, just like some of the weed I smoke(indica/sativa) and you can pollinate the flowers naturally,if you have enough bees to do so . Half and half genetics, now if the watermelon were done by nature, thats one thing, but because it was done in a biotech lab, using like two chromosomes from organic watermelon, The biotech fascist can manipulate the usda and call it organic, just like they manipulated the genes of that watermelon to become the abomination it is. And If it says seedless, I don’t eat it, if you can’t spit the seeds out from eating watermelon, don’t put your self out for food! Then don’t eat watermelon! Pitty, no swear words or insults the whole time,…………………………………… you fucking gmo tit sucking fascist!

Its a hybrid, just like some of the weed I smoke(indica/sativa) and you can pollinate the flowers naturally,if you have enough bees to do so . Half and half genetics, now if the watermelon were done by nature, thats one thing, but because it was done in a biotech lab, using like two chromosomes from organic watermelon, The biotech fascist can manipulate the usda and call it organic, just like they manipulated the genes of that watermelon to become the abomination it is. And If it says seedless, I don’t eat it, if you can’t spit the seeds out from eating watermelon, don’t put your self out for food! Then don’t eat watermelon! Pitty, no swear words or insults the whole time,…………………………………… you f ing gmo fascist

Thanks for proving my point. You have no clue. Seedless watermelons, like about a thousand other food bearing plants we have today are all thanks to mutation breeding. They took a regular watermelon scrambled its DNA with radiation and ended up with a seedless version. This process was started back in the 1930s. Totally unregulated, can be labeled organic, yet is totally unregulated. The difference is the internet wasn’t around back then so your lies couldn’t be spread as easy as they are today, and people back then had what you are badly lacking, something called common sense.

Bryan and Voice of Reason – We’ve seen “GMO Roberts” before and know that he’s an industry lickspittle. Now he has another troll shilling with him, so-called “ArdentRationalist”; or it may be another screen name for GMO Roberts. That sort of deception happens a lot.

Natural Society has an established audience that likes normal, natural, safe, healthful food, not pathogenic GMOs. The two trolls know this; they know that the folks here disagree with them totally. Hence, they’re probably being paid per post or per word on the off chance that a “stranger” will come to this forum and be persuaded by their snotty lies.

Don’t feed the trolls! Instead, let’s continue contacting our congress-critters and telling them that they are deliberately, knowingly murdering Americans if they don’t pass legislation to label or ban GMOs. Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, etc. also know that their products are pathogenic. The personnel of these corporations are deliberately knowingly murdering people in the USA and worldwide. These murderers must be prosecuted.

Yes anyone that doesn’t agree with you must be getting paid, doesn’t believe in real science, and if more than one they have to be the same person, did I leave anything out? Or do you have more irrational fears like your own shadow? It’s fine if you wish to eat organic go ahead no one is stopping you, but why lie? Is it to make yourself feel better about paying more? Or is it so you can try and get the rest of us to pay more so you still feel better?

So I’m a shill for sticking to evidence? Why don’t try to back your claims with evidence? I suspect you won’t do any such thing. I suspect you’ll resort to name calling because that’s really the best you can do.

Kosher labels are voluntary, not to mention they’re entirely ideologically based and have no significant bearing on the safety of the food products bearing the label. Do you not see the irony in using that example? “Non-GMO Project Verified” is the equivalent to kosher labelling. What you’re arguing for already exists.

Unless one can live off the land themselves, there is no choice avoiding the kosher label.

I don’t believe you. I don’t know where you live, but not a single thing in my kitchen has a kosher label on it. That’s not by choice, either. I just buy the foods I want without actively avoiding a kosher label.

Your nose can use some landscaping Pinocchio. Break out the reading glasses or magnifying glass and find that little U or K hidden on the package. It’s on Milk containers, Jelly jars and bars of soap. It’s everywhere.

“I don’t believe you. I don’t know where you live, but not a single thing in my kitchen has a kosher label on it.”

Here’s idea to make the farmers listen that we say NO to GMO. Take one food an boycott it for a week. Do not buy corn or anything that contains corn, such as corn syrup. Better idea, make the boycot 2 weeks!

gmo roberts, you should go bang your sister again, it might help your closed minded ,mid west living, brainwashed lemming ass, get a f ing clue. So at 55,60 when the golf ball sized tumour in your colon or liver or pancreas burst and you start bleeding inside, and your wife is asking” how did this happen”then your small fragile mind might have clue, that the world, not then, not now, not ever will the world need gmo crops! And if they are here to stay…. God help us all!

Sorry, don’t have a sister, but I see that you must really be into the incest thing. That is something not included in the Midwest values that you totally disregard. You have no real clue how or why a farm works, and all you apparently know about gmos is from social media (social lies). Maybe you should take a road trip and actually see how the real world works, and why your horror stories are so laughable.

Your, “how or why a farm works”is the laughable sentance! Sticking you hand up a cows ass, and forcing insemination, hoarding and sexing thousands of chickens in small indoor confinement and feeding pigs schlop from garbage heaps is NOT FARMING, the spraying of catastrophic, natural resource destroying, pesticides and herbicides is not farming, Artificially injecting the dna of a plant into another plant and through biochemistry forcing it to take on a unnatural and (widely researched and found to bad for you! by 64 nations)unnatural genetic make up, is not farming

You have just confirmed, your the biggest sack of horse shit! In here, Sorry if there are any type o’s, its hard to be at work, bang your mom, and use the one hand to use the comment section on my phone, to let you know that you so called farming and research methods are outdated, and your butt buddies science irrelevant, you are the source of the problem, your just to obtuse to see it.

The two lickspittles here try soooo hard to be aloof and snotty. They think it’s persuasive, but it makes them look like ugly machines cranking out dry propagandoids for their masters. – This IS an issue that evokes strong emotion because it hinges on healthy and happy life (good food) or miserably sick lives followed by premature death (GMOs).

To both the commenters, your”science” behind gm crops are what is wrong with this world. Pay a scientist enough money he will say what you want him to say. And you can say until you are blue in the face that gmos are good, but the everyday evidence is abundantly clear, top soil depletion, water contamination, rise(90% america) in food allergies, livestock feed( which is not made for human consumption), the cattle and dairy companies fatten live stock with gmos, Insect depletion( bees, wasps, ladybugs, lacewings) all have declined or almost have been wiped out due to gmo crops, predatory animals, birds, snakes all affected by gmos, so your dumb, gmo supporting, fucking losers,who should really read more and stop being a fucking lemming and get the facts from real scientist,or just open your eyes when the release chemical trails over your house

When you lack an argument, attack the source. Standard tactic of the uninformed.

…all affected by gmos

As the adage goes, ‘a theory that explains everything explains nothing’. This applies to your claim. By trying to link GMOs to every problem under the sun (so it would seem from your comment), you fail to link GMOs to anything. The reason this is fundamental wrong is that you ar treating all GMOs the same, yet failing to account for the fact that GMOs are not at all the same. They are the same in name only. Once you get the level of physical characteristics, however, there is nothing inherently the same among all GMOs. Thus, there is absolutely no logical basis for you claim. I suspect your claim is a point of ideology.

get the facts from real scientist

Would someone with a PhD in plant biochemistry, who has published peer-reviewed research involving genetically modified plants be considered a “real scientist” in your opinion? If so, good. That just happens to be me 🙂

First off, I have not try to link gmo’s to every problem, the ones I have mentioned are yes indeed linked to gmo’s, oh and I am sorry not specific enough,(agriculture, biochemistry, medicine). And yes, they are all inherently the same, all gentically altered by human hands! You dont get to play maker( if there is one)you dont get play mother nature, and your phd in the f ing class room, means nothing in reality! Your piece of paper means nothing when it comes to first
hand see it with your own two eyes knowledge. So your phd is worth the dept your in for getting it, and thats all. Trying to come at me with facny college words and ass backwards yoda talk will still not cover up the facts and that is when humans mess with things we screw it up!
And gmos used on plants in plants near plants, are causing predatory insects to die off at amazing rates, plant disease is not getting better, its getting worse, human cancer in the united states alone has increased exponentially over the past ten years, almost all fresh water sources are contaminated by runoff, Global warming from mass farms for gmo’s( cows, chickens, pigs). Bird species surrounding gmo crops are being affected, the Biochemistry, pharmaceutical companies gmo’s, have killed more people than cigarettes And car accidents. Let me guess mr. Ph-who gives a shit’ I bet now or have in the past, been approached or worked for monsanto! Oh speaking of, my little brain forgot , your friends and the DARK act, I wonder what they don’t want the american public to know? I bet its for our own good, and healthy for us!

You blame things on gmos that have nothing to do with them. A gmo never contaminated any water source. A gmo never has affected any bird. Gmos contribute no more to global warming than non gmo, unless you wish to stated the added yield requires more handling. As far as cancer rates, why don’t you look at what else has risen over the last ten years, lack of exercise, junk food, fast food, radiation from cell phone usage, to blame gmos, all gmos when each one is a stand alone product, is stupid. As far as man screwing up food, we have been doing it for ten thousand years now and we are still here. By the way you say you dislike gmos, how do you feel about the organically produced seedless watermelon?

Your comment is riddled with inaccuracies, misunderstanding and outright bias.

1) And yes, they are all inherently the same, all gentically altered by human hands!
That’s not a common physical trait. The same reasoning would say that all animals in a zoo are the same because they are cared for by humans or that all the word in my comment are the same because I wrote them. Genetic engineering is a process. It is NOT a physical attribute. You can refuse to accept this, but that doesn’t change the facts.

2) your phd in the f ing class room, means nothing in reality! Your piece of paper means nothing when it comes to first hand see it with your own two eyes knowledge.
You don’t have any idea what obtaining a PhD in science involves, do you? My PhD is not classroom based. I spent very little time taking classes during my graduate studies. To earn a PhD in science you have to conduct original research, which in your own words “comes to first hand see it with your own two eyes knowledge” (badly worded, but your writing not mine). In stark contrast, I bet you don’t have any first hand knowledge of genetic engineering, which makes you a bit of a hypocrite.

3)Trying to come at me with facny college words and ass backwards yoda talk will still not cover up the facts and that is when humans mess with things we screw it up!
Do you feel threatened by people with higher degrees of education than you? I don’t expect an honest answer to this question. I’ve met people like you before. Your derisive comments are a front to cover up a feeling of inadequacy. Deny it all you like, but the writing is on the wall.

4) And gmos used on plants in plants near plants
That’s a nonsensical statement in that it literally makes no sense when you look at it word for word, and only further demonstrates that you have no idea what you’re talking about.

6)Bird species surrounding gmo crops are being affected
Evidence? You’ve already demonstrated that you don’t bother checking facts before spewing claims. I’m gonna assume this is like the “increasing cancer” claim; something you just ‘feel’ is true but have never bothered to investigate yourself. Again, pretty hypocritical coming from someone who said you need to “see it with your own two eyes”.

7) Biochemistry, pharmaceutical companies gmo’s, have killed more people than cigarettes And car accidents
Evidence? This is getting old.

8)Let me guess mr. Ph-who gives a shit’ I bet now or have in the past, been approached or worked for monsanto!
Ah there it is! Classical ploy of someone without a shred of credibility or evidence to support his beliefs. When you’ve got nothing, launch an ad hominem attack. For the record, no I have never been approached by Monsanto.

It makes you sound less than serious. I generally see people who swear and call people names as lacking either a sophisticated understanding of the subject or a substantive argument and trying to cover up this shortcoming with bluster.

Opinions about labeling aside, the author’s bias is abundantly clear, as is her lack of familiarity with the science behind GM crops. That or she’s being outright deceitful.

The WHO has already declared that five of the major chemical herbicides used to grow GMO crops

None of these are “required” for growing GM crops. The crops are designed to work in conjunction with chemicals like RoundUp (glyphosate), but the crops can be grown without them as well. It’s a small point but the author words it in such a way that it’s confusing (which I think is deliberate).

genetically modified ‘food’

It’s edible and there is no evidence to suggest GM crops are not food. This is a point of ideology not science.

So are we really supposed to believe that genetically engineered crops are safe and that the average consumer in America who is practically begging for organic food…

Yes. There is no credible evidence indicating that GM crops are inherently less safe than non-GM crops. And I highly doubt that the “average consumer in America who is practically begging for organic food”. That sounds like a bunch of nonsense.

She is helping to defeat her cause more than she is helping it. What does it say when people have to resort to her tactics about her message? Fortunately, these are being pointed out in more and more places.

You have no idea what biochemistry is, do you? Biochemistry is simply the chemistry of biological systems (ie living organisms). It’s not inherently anti-nature. If fact, biochemistry is the basis of modern medicine. Biochemistry helps us understand nature.

I really did not need your textbook answer on biochemistry, also two flaws in your comment, that happend to be my points as to why biochemistry is bad: 1. Modern medicine(gmo pharmaceuticals) 2. Biochemistry helps us understand nature…………..(you fogot to say)”so we can genetically alter and unnaturally changes its dna to monopolise the food industry, In turn making people sick forcing them to rely on the Gmo medical system to continue the never ending money flow and never ending cycle of dependancy on the gmo food system”. You should really think about dropping everything, and put a rope in a gmo apple tree ; )